what have you heard about that
initiation that some of you are about to
get into nothing not too much huh but
you know it's to challenge you to go a
little further then where you really
think you can go now everybody talks
about this you know as a great
philosophy but you'd be surprised when
people are challenged in some way what
kind of voices start to come up what
kind of emotions start to respond to
those conditions
what type of unconscious habits people
fall into that caused them to return
back to their old self and so there's a
course that's going to challenge you and
it will challenge you physically it will
challenge you mentally and it will
challenge you emotionally because your
life does that anyway does it not so
then the more you're able to adapt to
conditions an adaptation is the key to
survival even Darwin said it's not the
strongest of species that survive it's
not the smartest species that survive
it's the ones that are the most adaptive
to change those are the ones that
survive and that it's not about the
survival of the fittest it's about a
community that cooperates and takes care
of one another the cooperation tends to
be the landmark for species to survive
and we're setting up communities of
people to work together to create a
greater bond a greater connection
instead of competing and trying to get
there first the new model is to work
together and support each other truly
hope for the best for every person and
bring that kind of energy in
to the course are you with me still so
when you look at that course you may
think oh my gosh this is gonna be very
physically challenging but there are
people that have gone through that
course that have health conditions that
have made it all the way through because
their will was invincible they didn't
see themselves as handicapped they saw a
possibility and they wanted to prove to
themselves that they could do it and
they did it and how do you think that
person is going to change their belief
about themselves in their lives tell me
so I want to introduce you to someone in
this group
where are you beautiful man he has a
physical limitation explain that to them
13 years ago I broke my neck and I burst
the c5 vertebra I had a whole column
removed in titanium fixation as a cage
now my cord and I was paralyzed from the
neck down
I am was in the hospital for seven
months and I never gave up hope and I
was I mean I'm an incomplete and spinal
cord injury so it's not completely
severed otherwise I probably would have
never recovered but who knows but but
what what happened I late I lay there at
night going why me why me why me and
blaming and everything else and one
night I said to me why not me why does
this happen to anybody and that's when I
started a heel and I just reframed what
was called catastrophic and to a point
now I'm going to get it all back I know
that but then what happened
it opened the door to possibility for me
and I discovered them dr. Joe I went to
a church in Piccadilly and I'd recorded
there years ago so I knew this place had
some stress on st. James yeah and very
irreverent in that you were my friend my
friend Tina said to me and I'm taking
you to this church you know I was like
oh God and then we're gonna go for a
vegan meal afterwards and the blood the
blood drained from my face anyway it was
dr. Joe and he spoke for an hour and a
half and I was like more behind me he
spoke for anyhow enough without script
I'd like to learn a bit of that so I
went home and I looked on to the
progressive in in London and then I
learnt about my Reggie book about
putting your attention on it was my hand
it was clamped closed microphone now and
my hand was clamped closed for em 13
years or 12 years and I started to do to
work and I started to put my attention
on it as if my hand was already open and
they said the hymn my consultant said to
me your hand is grossly deformed and you
will never use it again no wait a second
wait a second let's just back up here
okay spinal cord injury he come he
bursts a vertebrae in the middle of his
neck and that vertebrae tends to be the
vertebrae that holds the majority of the
weight of your head and your head is
like a big bowling ball sitting on a
column and when you compress those
vertebrae and you take that volume and
you begin to flatten it out that volumes
got to go somewhere so it bursts back
towards the spinal cord and when there's
bone fragments on the cord
that's what begins to cause interference
from the brain to the body because that
fiber-optic cable now is being disturbed
and there's a lot of inflammation that
goes around it
the connective tissue begins to swell
and it pushes up against it and those
nerves are connected to a plexus called
the brachial plexus and that brachial
plexus comes right down and intervenes
majority these two fingers and these
this finger here so the compression they
go in and they do the surgical
intervention they put the steel titanium
pieces in there and then what they do is
when they drill the titanium pieces and
it pulls the the the vertebrae up off
the court but what happens is is that it
begins to pull on nerve roots it begins
to irritate that tissue and you get
what's called [ __ ] paralysis the hand
begins to close up like this and it
begins to stay contracted and because of
the lack of mobility there's less nerve
supply going to the tissue and it's like
having a rock on a garden hose
there's no water going to the garden so
the garden begins to dry out and so the
tissue that's at the target end of those
nerves begin to shrink and diminish does
that make sense so the doctor looking at
the condition based on natural and
normal is going to give them the voodoo
curse your hand is deformed it's never
gonna get better
get used to living it with it for the
rest of your life now here's the
question that experience and what the
doctor tells him could change his
emotional state
yes or no and the moment it changes his
emotional state he wakes up and pays
attention to that moment and he creates
a long-term memory and everything past
that point then he will perceive through
that experience yes or no and he dropped
the big stone in the water if he reacted
emotionally and that begins to produce
the ripple called reality and every time
he thinks of the experience every time
it remembers it every time he asked why
me every time he's a victim to the
circumstances then he's creating more of
sameness life because his energy is the
same but he's got to go to a greater
energy a greater experience than the
experience that created the trauma are
you with me still both and what the
doctor told him and the event in and of
itself so then he has a choice the
moment the doctor says that to accept
believe and surrender to that
information without analyzing it and
that's gonna program his autonomic
nervous system right into that destiny
yes or no or he cannot accept believe in
surrender to it and he could say well
I'm just gonna go supernatural and let's
see what I can do to get beyond this how
many people understand go ahead so what
happened when I mean it's a hypnotic
induction isn't it if someone that his
stature says your hands grossly deformed
it's completely closed used take two
nurses to prise it open to splint it and
then it used to go back to its same
state but the worst thing was when he
said that my hand used to hang out here
I didn't it wasn't even aware of there
and my physio managed to get it back in
but my brain switched off of knowing
that I had a hand because I was told it
wasn't never going to work my brain
wanted to work this stuff that was gonna
work so years went by and I had various
they've got Botox injections into the
tendons to kill them and they stay were
going to cut the tendons at one point so
my hand was flat I mean great and so I
went to dr. Joe and I started to do the
work and I didn't do it very diligently
and then I went to Garda Lake and I I
was there and I this makes so much sense
so I thought I'd really make an effort
from a year last time I started year
last October but in January it was Garda
and then I really started to do the work
every day an hour and I we doin our
meditation but also do 40 minutes so I
just put my attention on the hand as if
it was open and I recruited the feeling
as if it was already open how I'd feel
an artificial made up and sensation but
I managed to get that feeling and then
after about two weeks
my hand started to flicker I mean it was
it was clamped clothes like this tight
and it started to flicker and then it
would open I got to about there and then
of course the proper feeling comes up
because this is happening and this is
real so it's been a slow process but my
hands now open this far and I've got the
key thing is there's no doubt in my mind
I'll get this hand back and when this
pops open the spasticity is gonna go out
the leg and I will I will get over this
I know I will and I'll keep doing this
until I do that course that you were on
yesterday you know you could have said
hey I got a bad arm you know I'm there's
no way I'm gonna do that you know I'm
just not certain that this is for me
maybe I'll take the easy way out and
I'll just cheery buddy on but you
decided to step beyond your physical
limitation and the belief that you are
limited in some way and to challenge
yourself to a greater measure and you
accomplished the feat I also got level 3
but I said no and we're sending you back
tomorrow
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are you ready to go so physical handicap
but that would be a name and identity
that you can wear and there have been
people in this work that have wanted
healings but used their handicap to get
in the front of the line use the
handicap to park in the right sparking
spot use the handicap to get attention
and even though they said they wanted to
be healing healed that all those things
they weren't certain they wanted to give
up you can't take the perks if you want
to get better you can't gotta give them
all up I've not got my blue badge I'm
not renewed it since 2011 I gotta give
it up yeah so how do you feel about
yourself now that you accomplished that
task I am oh it was I knew I would an
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arrogant I just knew I would and I know
I've broken my neck once so I thought
maybe it wouldn't happen again and the
the biggest thing for me the power of
encouragement and there were people
there who were struggling as well but
the people on the ground encouraging me
all the way and Yuri like gave me such a
lift and I thought to myself last night
we don't do enough to our young we don't
encourage enough and it's it's such a
sad thing because I think people are
having a go at one another and bitching
at one another and you know just a bit
of encouragement it can make such a
difference right yeah well think of the
word think of the word encouragement yep
soo instill courage in another yeah the
active and still encouraged and another
just by support just by energy just by
words in cooperation and collaboration
and connection and communication and
oneness creates oneness yeah and if you
got a group of birds all flying in the
same direction got a school of fish all
moving as one you got a group of people
doing the same as just a matter of time
that Energy's going to begin to
influence your nervous system now I want
to be very clear
that you're healing and those of you who
are in similar positions as this
beautiful man that when you begin to
interact with that energy that frequency
that field I want you to know that
matter doesn't change matter with the
spinal cord injury that it's energy that
changes matter and the more you connect
to energy the more your nervous system
is gonna process a faster frequency and
that faster frequency is going to be
water running down the garden hose and
it's gonna bring life to those tissues
and every day that you surrender to it
and feel it and experience it not just
feel your hand and your awareness of it
but surrender it to a greater frequency
and channel that energy through your
autonomic nervous system in one
direction and as you do that enough
times it's gonna follow the path of your
intent follow the path of your intention
your attention and that's going to begin
to bloom like a flower I haven't missed
a day for over a year no excuses doesn't
matter where I am I have not missed a
day and I do at least an hour of guided
and I also do the 40 minutes on the hand
and I thought I now feel it's my duty to
get this completely out of me and also
and to a to inspire people but and just
as possible you know and we just put up
all these limiting beliefs in front of
ourselves and we get told things by
doctors and consultants and things and
then they're not necessarily true I
think you know certain acute surgery is
necessary going to keep my head on but
you know yeah and I I'm lucky and the
the other major thing that's come out of
this this is injury hasn't been a blight
on my life it's been an absolute
blessing I changed my career iron
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